Yvonne Denis Rosario (born March 9, 1967) is an Afro-Puerto Rican storyteller, poet, librettist, columnist and academic.

[2] Her maternal great-grandmother, Josefa “Maita” Osorio Villarán (1860–1953), had been kidnapped from Benin, West Africa, and enslaved in Puerto Rico, before achieving her freedom.

[2] Denis Rosario attended Luz América Calderón high school in Carolina, Puerto Rico, graduating in 1984.

She went on to earn a Paralegal Studies certificate in 1995 at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP), a Criminal Justice B.A.

[2] Since 2006, she has been writing professionally and her books, which have been translated into many languages, include Capá Prieto, Bufé, Delirio Entrelazado, and Sepultados.